jasimon wrote:But at least he was better than Pettachi - although not as good as Feillu, who others more adept at this than me have on their teams.

For me there is a bit of a story behind this. I originally had Goss in my team and then changed Feillu in before the selection deadline. I then pressed the red button, to save of course, but my team was then submitted and had no option but to go with him - something I was regretting for a few days. I think I have already posted about that I would have changed Feillu if I had enough points for the swap I wanted to do.

This was a slightly mitigated disaster. Cav in was good, but Gilbert out - only time will tell how many points that will cost. Cadel looks like he his intent on finishing at the front of the field too. And Bozic did well - in the intermediate sprint.

With Petacchi coming in like he did in stage 7 this probably didn't cost too many points at the time, just a couple of trades when we got to stage 8 where I got Evans and Gilbert back on the team. But it has cost on stages 12/14 with two less transfers available. Amazing how clear it is with hindsight.

Thanks ft. Just trying my best. I've had a bit of a flatspot these last couple of days (well at least potentially to others who are high up), but that hasn't come through on the scoreboard yet - be interesting to see how it sits once it comes back up.

The other thing that is a little concerning is how good a GC team someone could potentially have on stage 18/19 for their bonus stage - although as with everything there is no guarantee - be interesting to see what will happen.

Hoping for Evans, Sanchez and Gilbert to descend (safely) like maniacs on stages 16 and 17 to gain time, good places and green points. Thinking about it, add Voeckler to that list, but he's not on my team yet.

im_no_pro wrote:They posted on facebook earlier the site was subjected to an attack by hackers. Havent had a chance to read it yet so dont know what, if any success the hackers had.

The post says ...

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They don't update in a timely fashion, but they keep a record of everything so you still need to make any transfers at the appropriate time regardless of what is showing for points and whatnot.

It is a pain - but it means that I appear to be doing better than I actually am (Nick has probably overtaken me for second based on the last stages but I've still got my nose in front based on the old data).

Just by way of observation I will say that my performance (I suspect two points behind Nick with a rank of 50ish once the final standings points are awarded -- Why, oh why, did I swap Farrar for Cancellara on the final day when I could have left Cancellara in and swapped out Contador or Schleck?) is how well you can do without any specific knowledge of cycling or cyclists. My performance was based on a thorough understanding of the rules and extensive use of oddschecker.com. For example, even though I had him in my team, I wouldn't know Phillipe Gilbert from a bar of soap. But lots of punters thought he was the bees knees and that was good enough for me. Anyone else frequent oddschecker.com?

Thanks John, I had better start accepting the glory of winning the BNA comp, because I'm pretty sure I've finished in 5th by one point, 43 points behind the winner, first place outside the prizes. Always next year.

Oddschecker is certainly useful, although you have to beware of the English bias. As your swap (taking out Cancellara) shows it is worth knowing as much as possible about the riders - looking at your team I would have taken out Contador (which is exactly what I did in my team). Over the last 3 years of doing this competition I have become much more interested about trying to understand the riders and how they will perform on given stages, the factors that affect performance, and looking at other race results/articles to try to gauge form.

BTW, did you get 198 for the bonus stage? Who was in your team?

One annoying swap for me was taking out Velits to put in Uran for stage 18, which cost 29 points over the following three stages. You can't dwell too much on these though, cause everyone has them - and what about those who had their entire GC team crash out!?

I notice that we have quite a few in the top 100 this year (5 pending change of results).

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cherrycam wrote:BTW, did you get 198 for the bonus stage? Who was in your team?

At least until a few hours ago it only said 119 for the bonus stage. I had pretty much the same as you only minus Feillu and plus Ciolek (IIRC). Not sure what is going on with that number but it seems to be affecting everyone (you apparently got 235 points for the bonus stage). Maybe they are using this route to apply final standing points and aren't quite finished? (But my final standing points should be more than that so I'm not really sure what is up.)

jasimon wrote:At least until a few hours ago it only said 119 for the bonus stage. I had pretty much the same as you only minus Feillu and plus Ciolek (IIRC). Not sure what is going on with that number but it seems to be affecting everyone (you apparently got 235 points for the bonus stage). Maybe they are using this route to apply final standing points and aren't quite finished? (But my final standing points should be more than that so I'm not really sure what is up.)

The difference of 94 for me (from 141) is the number of incorrectly assigned points for the final standings. My final standings points are 218.

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